An App for foreign language learning

Hi friends!

This week I will tell you about an app for foreign language learning. It is Babbel. Babbel is very useful and enjoyable app. It puts the lessons in parts and makes target language very simple. Registration with Babbel is completely free of charge and the first lesson in every course, in every language, is free to try. They only charge if you want full access to the courses in your learning language, but all other parts of Babbel are free to use. There are more than 3000 words for each of the following learning languages: English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. The following learning languages have more than 2000 words: Danish, Dutch, Indonesian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian and Turkish.

Now I will tell you how to use it step by step. It is very simple to use it.

Firstly,  You can choose the language that  you want to learn. I chose French.

As you see, we begin with four important vocabularies and the differences tu and vous.

Then, you can see the words and the most beautiful thing is that you can hear the pronunciations of the words.

Then, there is a little quiz which makes 

the words more memorable.               

Then you are supposed to complete a dialogue so you can both hear the pronunciations of the sentences and learn other words too.

And it shows your score and skips part 2. You can also choose challenge part and learn daily vocabularies.

There are a lot of sample sentences with their pronunciations. The images are very colorful. 

I like this app so much and if you want to learn about it more you can visit here.

That's all!

DİGİTAL STORYTELLİNG PROJECT

Hello everyone!

This week our assignment was digital storytelling. Digital storytelling is kind of digital media production that allows everyday people to share aspects of their life story. People can share their birthdays, hobbies, stories and so many things they wish.I made this project with my friend Sinem. We shared a story named ‘’Flowers’’. It is about friendship. I think it is very useful in education because it can develop the creativity of the children or help their writing or speaking skills or it makes the even most boring subjects funnier. While doing this assignment we had some difficulties some points. For example, we made it by storybird. It is very useful it includes a lot of images and you can create a story very easily but it lacks of audio recording so we had to take the screenshots of the images and made it by movie maker. Nevertheless it was very enjoyable and I am very happy to learn Digital Storytelling. I apply it my classroom in the future because I believe that it helps students to create their own life story.